"It's not just the jargon but the fact that he's able to deploy
it in the manner that it's meant to be used," Vishal Trivedi told
The Journal.

Trivdei, the Journal added, works in municipal finance in
Oakland, has a degree in economics, and follows Canseco's tweets.
Trivedi added Canseco's use of jargon "shows he's thought about
these topics, he has a cohesive opinion."

Which is exactly what someone who uses jargon wants you to
believe.

For all of its flaws, the movie version of "The Big
Short" did a great job exposing BS financial industry jargon
for what it is: BS.

One of the film's defining features was its fourth-wall-breaking
cutaways in which celebrities like Margot Robbie, Anthony
Bourdain, and Selena Gomez - each playing themselves - explained
some of the famous phrases that came out of the financial crisis
like subprime mortgages, collateralized debt obligations (CDOs),
and synthetic CDOs.

And while there is a tongue-in-cheek educational aspect to these
cut-ins, the other point clearly made in the film is that these
phrases are jargony ways of hiding from a non-expert what these
things really are.

Now, every industry is going to have its own internal language
and logic that can to certain degrees be more or less
impenetrable to an outsider. You also can't really survive in
finance or any other industry without, on some level, conforming
to the standards of the field.

But as a general rule, the use of jargon - in finance and
otherwise - should always be kept to a minimum and, when
possible, avoided altogether.

Clear writing, clear thinking, and clear speaking can in most all
cases use the words available to a broad set of listeners or
readers. The use of jargon is a demerit against the idea being
presented using this language.

And I'd even take this a step further: the amount of jargon used
in discussing any topic is inversely proportional to the
presenter's understanding of the topic.